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News Paradise Pier Becoming Pixar Pier
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Ismael Flores
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That would make sense, they can close of the eastern half of Paradise Pier and just put walls in front of the Mickey wheel and boardwalk game area. This would leave a large walkway for guests going to midway mania and carousel until it is time to close
Shigg. W. McGee
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Press 'F' to pay respects.lets all hold our candles for screamin'
vancee
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I don't think many here get that.
SSG
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Thu, December 14, 2017
12 Days of Disney Parks Christmas: Working Model of Pixar Pier Shows Newly Themed Areas Coming Summer 2018 to Disney California Adventure Park
Erin Glover, Editorial Content Director, Disneyland Resort
Coming summer 2018, Pixar Pier will transform the southern shore of Paradise Bay at Disney California Adventure park with whimsical neighborhoods filled with characters from some of your favorite Pixar stories. Today, we are bringing you a first look at this transformation through photos of a working model now in use at Walt Disney Imagineering.
Featuring newly themed attractions, foods and merchandise, this area will introduce new neighborhoods representing beloved Pixar stories. The neighborhood inspired by “The Incredibles” will be anchored by the Incredicoaster, which will feature a new mid-century-modern-style loading area inspired by the Parr family home as seen in the upcoming “Incredibles 2.”
Another of the neighborhoods will be a celebration of many of your favorite Pixar stories. In this neighborhood, each of the 24 gondolas on what is now Mickey’s Fun Wheel will feature different pairs of Pixar pals, and at the Games of the Boardwalk, all of the midway games will be inspired by characters from films such as “a bug’s life,” “WALL·E” and the Pixar short “La Luna.”
Pixar Pier will open summer 2018, during the first-ever Pixar Fest celebration, which begins April 13. The celebration will include the new “Together Forever – A Pixar Nighttime Spectacular” fireworks spectacular as well as the return of Pixar Play Parade and “Paint the Night” parade, and much more throughout the entire Disneyland Resort.
Rich T
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I'm actually curious about what kind of carnival game "La Luna" is being turned into. Let's take one of the most charming and gentle short films ever made and turn it into a...carny game. Genious, Disney! Wow! Does this company understand its own IPs or what?
But if they manage to make Screamin's brake run less ugly... all can be forgiven. Gonna miss the Mugu Tattoo sign, though. And the scary giant Carny Barker holding up the gift shop ceiling? Is he going away? Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! #savegiantbarkerimserious
But if they manage to make Screamin's brake run less ugly... all can be forgiven. Gonna miss the Mugu Tattoo sign, though. And the scary giant Carny Barker holding up the gift shop ceiling? Is he going away? Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! #savegiantbarkerimserious
TROR
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Short answer? No. Long answer? Still no, but Disney doesn't understand anything it owns other than that it's popular. Why it's popular, why things are beloved. They have no idea why. It's lost on them. They invested in building an entire land themed to Avatar because it's the highest grossing film of all time, but failed to realize nobody cared. They're building Star Wars land, and while it'll be a huge hit, they seem to think what people want is new trilogy setting and not the original trilogy setting even though Darth Vader will always have a larger draw than Kylo Ren. Disney truly only sees the numbers instead of what really matters.
D
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You sound like me when they took down the clown jack-in-the-box marquee for the Man Hat N' Beach shop that I affectionately named Clarence.
RIP Clarence.
GiveMeTheMusic
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This deal is bad. I see no upsides to anyone but Iger, Murdoch and shareholders. It will further reduce needed competition in Hollywood, concentrate too much power in one corner, and it has no discernible upsides for fans other than bringing more Marvel characters into the MCU fold, characters they don't even need.
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I don't disagree in principle, but the fact that Disney has been so incredibly and wildly successful, and with the Fox merger giving it increased leverage to compete globally - not just with Hollywood but with Silicon Valley for content distribution - says that it understands its IP far better than any of us may be willing to admit. La Luna is an itsy-bitsy speck in the scheme of things now.
Rich T
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I think a lot of this falls under the "Killing the Golden Goose" theme... except that in this case the owner thrives and doesn't miss what it's killed off. The company will keep getting bigger... but it won't really be "Disney" in anything except name. I really hate to see this company--the last of the big Hollywood studios with an identity and front-and-center-heritage--become just another soulless Comcast or TIme/Warner. I kinda knew it had to happen sooner or later... but it's happened much quicker than I ever expected.
Disney Irish
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Um, while this belongs in the Star Wars thread, you do realize there was a reason why the original trilogy wasn't used as a basis for the land. The primary reason was Fox, the secondary reason was they wanted to promote the Disney released films. As of now all of that is moot, but when it was being designed they wanted no connection to Fox and only the connection to the new films produced by Disney.
I know you like to think current Disney management as some greedy soulless group. But with this they thought long and hard about how they wanted to present it. And it made all the sense in the world to use the new films as the launching off point since they had all the control.
TROR
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You say these as if they're not the same thing.
Rich T
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I just called the barker "Scary Guy." I'm gonna miss him if he's being torn out!You sound like me when they took down the clown jack-in-the-box marquee for the Man Hat N' Beach shop that I affectionately named Clarence.
RIP Clarence.
Disney Irish
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So because they don't want to promote content that was tied to another studio at the time and promote the content they created, they are greedy and soulless?
TROR
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You realize they own all of Star Wars, right? The only thing they can't do is distribute the first six movies.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Which is the exact reason why they didn't want to promote them as part of the new land. Why promote something you cannot distribute as your own.
Now all of that is moot since all those rights come over with Fox Studios. But at the time the decision was made to use content that was wholly created and distributed by Disney.
TROR
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Because the Original Trilogy is more iconic and beloved than the Sequel Trilogy and has proven to be timeless, that's why. If the ONLY reason SWL is being built is to promote the new movies, that is soulless and greedy.